It was a most wonderful sight, and Gard sat long watching it, then and
later, fascinated always and puzzled by that extraordinary
self-compression and sudden upleap of the waters out of an otherwise
placid sea.
It was but one more odd expression of Nature's fantastic humour, and the
nearest he could come to an explanation of it was that, in the sea bed
just there, was some great fault, some huge chasm into which the waters
fell and then came leaping out to further torment on the rocks.
It was as he was returning to his own quarters by a somewhat different
route across the valley of rocks, that he lighted on another find which
contented him greatly.
In one of the saw-toothed chasms he saw a piece of wood sticking up, and
climbed along to get it as first contribution to his fire. And when he
got to it, down below in the gully, he found jammed the whole side of a
boat, flung up there by some high spring tide and trapped before it
could escape. Excellent wood for his firing, well tarred and fairly dry.
He hauled and pulled till he had it all safely up, and then he carried
it, load after load, to his house, and laid it out in the sun to dry
still more.
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